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...impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little...
...Ronald Norwood Davies, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as U.S. judge for the district of North Dakota according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help...
James L. Joslin of Eliot House and Norwood, Mass., was elected Member-at-Large of the Committee...
...charged that she and her husband had once been employed by Boston's Communist-front Samuel Adams School. When a Senate Internal Security subcommittee questioned her about her past, Mary Knowles ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Though .the Senate took no action against her at the time, the Norwood, Mass, library fired her from the job she then held as branch librarian...
Having safely gotten past the Hospitality Bar, where Pabst dispenses free beer to guests, the seven ministers met Production Vice President Lewis P. Weiner, who tried to convince them that "there is a great difference of opinion as to whether beer is an intoxicating beverage." Norwood knew better. "I've gotten drunk from it," he said, coolly explained that he once was a heavy drinker but was saved by the ministry. Said Weiner: "I'm glad you could come; it shows a spirit of broad-mindedness." Replied Norwood: "Even football teams send scouts to see the enemy...